As a gesture of respect to this site’s owner and operator—not to mention him being one of the most decent individuals I have ever had the privilege to call friend—it behooves me to direct my disputable artistic skills towards capturing some aspect of this sombre Holiday and a sincere recognition of his belief.

The crucifix is of a traditional dogwood grain and limned in blood red out of respect for He who suffered its unendurable torment. The lambent rays that spread from its apex are shaded in graduations of increasing transparency that become clearest along its major axis, as does His word to those who follow most closely in that path. Centered on the transept is an orb of brilliant green representing both the regeneration of springtime and the rebirth that Christ offers all who would take him as their savior. A golden nimbus symbolizing the hallowed nature of its station halos it. And detailed in the cross is a separate indicator of the one true path of right conduct that commands every last one of us to recall the Golden Rule of doing unto others as we would have them to do unto us.

That detail’s upward indicator is a tribute to how there is only “One Way”—be it for a true believer or an Agnostic—all of us have no choice but to follow the path of Right Conduct. Anything less is, not just unworthy but contributory to a nascent—if not, fully fledged—evil.

America is ready for Communism and we all need to get behind Hussein Obama's efforts!

To show our support, I think we should raise $250,000 to buy this statue of Lenin that resides at the "Artist's Republic of Fremont" somewhere around Seattle. It is for sale!

I
believe it would make a nice addition to the White House front lawn and
if we can raise the current asking price for this sixteen foot, seven
ton piece of "art" we can send the gift to BHO, say by July 4th - formerly known as Independence Day - to let our CIC (and the first "C" stands for....) know we are behind him all the way!

So as we in the West all wring our hands over "Islamophobia", when do we stop to consider why Christianity and Judaism have all but disppeared from the very region where they were born (notable exception Israel)?

In the case of the Jews, even after the expulsion by the Romans from the Land of Israel, there continued to be Jewish communities in the Arab lands through the centuries, who lived in a dhimmi status-until 1948-49 when they were driven out of those countries after the creation of Israel. Almost one million people had to leave their homes often with nothing more than what they could carry. Nobody talks about them as they mourn the Arabs who left the newly-created Israel in 1948-most voluntarily upon the urging of the invading Arab armies who promised a quick return once they had driven the Jews out. Those refugees wound up in refugee camps in the neighboring countries, and there they remained unable-with the exception of Jordan- to become citizens and assimilate. They became known in the 1960s-yes the 1960s- as "Palestinians", useful pawns to the Arab world that cannot accept a Jewish state in the region.

As for the Christians, most notably, the Copts in Egypt, they have been increasingly marginalized and with the so-called Arab Spring, now find themselves in even more peril. Keep in mind that the Copts were in Egypt long before the Muslims and now make up about 10% in that country.

So why is it that in the region where the three monotheistic, Abrahamaic faiths were born Christianity and Judaism have all but disappeared-again with the notable exception of a greatly-threatened Israel? Could it be despite all the claims that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance that has always co-existed with and protected its religious minorities that just the opposite is true-that it is all about warfare, conquest and persecution?

Rather than launch into another discourse on that question, I suggest the reader read the history. Read the Koran. Learn how the Koran was put together, how it is organized, and how it is interpreted by Islamic scholars. Check out those scholars and the leading schools of Islamic thought. Read the Hadith. Read about the life of the Prophet Mohammed. Follow the events in the Middle East and the Islamic world as well as what is happening in Europe today. To be sure, read all sides. Evaluate the sources. Read between the lines. Attend those interfaith meetings and asked educated and pointed questions to the Muslim representatives. Carefully scrutinize what they say.

Previously, I have written posts about the influence of an agency called CSCOPE in our schools-especially in Texas. Creeping Sharia has a post on a test question your kids may have already seen and taken.

I am surprised one of those choices wasn't helping little old ladies across the street.

How about these?

K death penalty for gays
L death penalty for those who blaspheme Islam
M death penalty for apostasy
N death by stoning for adulterers.

The above is also part of sharia-specifically under hudud sharia- penalty for crimes against God.

That brings us to a recent video that comes from Africa. Atlas Shrugs has posted it, and it has been picked up by other sites. It is graphic and highly disturbing. After careful thought, I have decided to post it. I will explain why below. ( I don't know what the sound track is saying or who put it in the tape.)

My dear readers, this is not about hating people who are Muslims, nor should it ever be. Surely, many Muslims in the US came here to escape this very barbarity. However, this is part and parcel of sharia law. It mandates a death sentence for acts which in our law are not even crimes. This is why so many states are trying to insure that this type of legal philosophy cannot worm its way into American law. It is not about discrimination. It is about human rights.

Our children are being indoctrinated by our public school system when it comes to the reality of this most controversial issue in the world today. This is the same public school system that systematically eliminates any references to Christianity-most recently even to mention the word, "Easter".

If you have kids in school, you need to pay close attention to what they are being taught. It is well and good to teach tolerance. It is not good to teach misinformation and falsehoods. I am not suggesting that schools teach the darker sides of sharia law to classes that have Muslim children lest they be singled out for schoolyard taunting. Perhaps it would be better if the schools allowed the kids to learn about it the old-fashioned way-by experience as they grow up. If you can't teach the truth, it is better to teach nothing at all

This is just incredible to watch. I love watching the faces of the children and how the crowd grows and reacts in totally positive ways. Simply a beautiful event to watch. I cut my teeth on Beethoven starting when I was just two or three years old.I can thank my great Mom for that and for my love for classical music. Here is a note about how this was set up and the crowd of people was just a spontaneous gathering to the music and musicians. PatriotUSA

""On the 130th anniversary of the founding of Banco Sabadell we wanted to pay homage to our city by means of the campaign “Som Sabadell” (We are Sabadell) . This is the flashmob﻿ that we arranged as a final culmination with the participation of 100 people from the Vallès Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de l’Òpera and Coral Belles Arts choirs."

This is a Paul Tillson from Oregon, who served honorably, got an
education and opened his own IT company that does online computer
repair, and is a disabled veteran.

and then -

Some of you will remember Paul Tillson
– the shitstain from New Jersey who showed up on our Interwebz wearing
enough military decorations to choke a woolly mammoth. The guys at This Ain’t Hell outed Tillson
as an outright fraud, and he proceeded to threaten legal action against
them, using written language so bad, that it made my cactus wilt!

The two Tillsons are staggeringly different, and yet, when people Google
Paul Tillson, they’re inundated with photos of the freak, rather than
the legitimate businessman.

"Prolonged
detention" he's calling it. This was a beautiful speech from President
Obama today with patriotic, moving, even poetic language about the rule
of law and the constitution. And, one of the most radical proposals
for defying the Constitution that we have ever heard made to the
American people.

My one time? And yeah, I'm going to keep posting it till I'm blue in the face! This video needs to be seen by every freedom loving American in the United States of America.

Obama's Egypt is working out just fine for him, his administration and thanks to the election of the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate, Mohamed Morsi.

Sadly, these results were predicted by myself and many other counterjihadists when it became evident that Hosni Mubarak would be totally betrayed by Obama, many other leaders from the West and Europistan. While Mubarak was far from the perfect ally for United States, he did keep this situation more or less under control

The Muslim Brotherhood brings subjugation, persecution, and death no matter where it spawns. This is because the Muslim Brotherhood totally embraces and wants to force Islamic sharia law onto all muslims, infidels, kuffars (that is me and you), any and all minorities. Women and girls are under subjected to terrible treatment under sharia law.
The prevailing attitude that many Muslim men have is that if a woman or girl gets assaulted, beaten and raped, it is without a doubt the woman's fault. It is a very common outcome for the woman to be punished for getting raped or assaulted and if she was found to have betrayed her family honor, she can be put to death or is killed by a male member of her own family.

This line of thinking is not just isolated to Egypt. It is found in every Muslim/Islamic country and in many of these countries the men are raised to think that this the way it is and should be. The horrible mistreatment of women and girls is passed on from one generation to the next. If you think most Muslims are against sharia law, think again. When polled about sharia law, most Muslims are in favor of some level of sharia law being implemented where they live.

"The sheer number of women sexually abused and gang raped in a single
public square had become too big to ignore. Conservative Islamists in Egypt’s new political elite were outraged — at the women.

Sometimes, said Adel Abdel Maqsoud Afifi, a police general, lawmaker
and ultraconservative Islamist, “a girl contributes 100 percent to her
own raping when she puts herself in these conditions.”

The following is from Answering Muslims. You will also find a link to an article from Gasp, the New York Times about how bad this problem has gotten in Egypt. Think about this for a minute. The NY Times, an uber progressive, regressive, liberal propaganda source for the Obama Administration and all things liberal has an article that points the problems at Islam, sharia law and drags the Muslim Brotherhood into the mix. Of course the Times still does not go all the way and come right out say it but for the Times, an article that is not totally politically correct.

The problem IS Islam and sharia law, period.

As I have said before and will keep on saying:

There is no peace within Islam and with Islam, there can never be peace.PatriotUSA

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New York Times Reports on Increase in Sexual Assaults in Brotherhood-Led Egypt

Here's the discussion over the past couple of years:

WESTERN LEADERS: "Hey! If we help Islamist organizations in the
Middle East, we can topple secular dictators and bring about a
renaissance in Muslim leadership!"

PEOPLE WHO'VE STUDIED ISLAM: "That's not going to work. If the Muslim Brotherhood takes over, women and religious minorities will be severely oppressed."

WESTERN LEADERS: "How racist and Islamophobic of you to say that! You don't understand the wonderful nature of Islam!"

WESTERN LEADERS: "Sorry, can't help you. Who are we to interfere
in the affairs of Muslims? It would be racist and Islamophobic to object
to your oppression."

PEOPLE WHO'VE STUDIED ISLAM: "We tried to tell you."

You know the problem has gotten bad when even the New York Times is forced to say something about it.

CAIRO — The sheer number of women sexually abused and
gang raped in a single public square had become too big to ignore.
Conservative Islamists in Egypt’s new political elite were outraged — at
the women.

“Sometimes,” said Adel Abdel Maqsoud Afifi, a police general, lawmaker
and ultraconservative Islamist, “a girl contributes 100 percent to her
own raping when she puts herself in these conditions.”
The increase in sexual assaults over the last two years has set off a
new battle over who is to blame, and the debate has become a stark and
painful illustration of the convulsions racking Egypt as it tries to
reinvent itself.

Under President Hosni Mubarak, the omnipresent police kept sexual
assault out of the public squares and the public eye. But since Mr.
Mubarak’s exit in 2011, the withdrawal of the security forces has
allowed sexual assault to explode into the open, terrorizing Egyptian
women.

Women, though, have also taken advantage of another aspect of the
breakdown in authority — by speaking out through the newly aggressive
news media, defying social taboos to demand attention for a problem the
old government often denied. At the same time, some Islamist elected
officials have used their new positions to vent some of the most
patriarchal impulses in Egypt’s traditional culture and a deep hostility
to women’s participation in politics.

The female victims, these officials declared, had invited the attacks by
participating in public protests. “How do they ask the Ministry of
Interior to protect a woman when she stands among men?” Reda Saleh Al
al-Hefnawi, a lawmaker from the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party,
asked at a parliamentary meeting on the issue.

The revolution initially promised to reopen public space to women. Men
and women demonstrated together in Tahrir Square peacefully during the
heady 18 days and nights that led to the ouster of Mr. Mubarak. But
within minutes of his departure the threat re-emerged in a group attack
on the CBS News correspondent Lara Logan. There are no official
statistics on women attacked — partly because few women report offenses —
but all acknowledge that the attacks have grown bolder and more
violent.

By the second anniversary of the revolution, on Jan. 25, the symbolic
core of the revolution — Tahrir Square — had become a no-go zone for
women, especially after dark.

During a demonstration that day against the new Islamist-led government,
an extraordinary wave of sexual assaults — at least 18 confirmed by
human rights groups, and more, according to Egypt’s semiofficial
National Council of Women — shocked the country, drawing public
attention from President Mohamed Morsi and Western diplomats.

Hania Moheeb, 42, a journalist, was one of the first victims to speak
out about her experience that day. In a television interview, she
recounted how a group of men had surrounded her, stripped off her
clothes and violated her for three quarters of an hour. The men all
shouted that they were trying to rescue her, Ms. Moheeb recalled, and by
the time an ambulance arrived she could no longer differentiate her
assailants from defenders.

To alleviate the social stigma usually attached to sexual assault
victims in Egypt’s conservative culture, her husband, Dr. Sherif Al
Kerdani, appeared alongside her.

“My wife did nothing wrong,” Dr. Kerdani said.

In the 18 confirmed attacks that day, six women were hospitalized,
according to interviews conducted by human rights groups. One woman was
stabbed in her genitals, and another required a hysterectomy. (Continue Reading.)

The Obama administration is doing all it can to ensure that our country is overrun by illegal aliens (Democrat voters) by gutting and stressing the Border Patrol at every turn. From leaving areas of our border unguarded, unprotected for hours at a time, to cutting the pay of those who tirelessly work and put their lives on the line every day while the overhead of the Border Patrol get large raises and perks, The TSA gets $50 million to make the TSA even more intrusive into Americans lives, the Border Patrol is under attack from our own federal government led by the worst traitor of them all, Barack Hussein Obama.

Please read this and share with as many as you can. Thanks! PatriotUSA**********************************

Show Your Support For the U.S. Border Patrol!!!

By Velcro

Download and spread far and wide!

If
you've been paying attention, you know that the sequester cuts have
been the excuse the Department of Homeland Security has been looking for
to cut allocations to the U.S. Border Patrol. Yes, those folks, the ones who have the thankless (and now seemingly payless) job of stopping the flood of Democratic voters illegal aliens into southern Arizona.Local 2544, the Border Patrol union for the Tucson sector, has announced that the union hasauthorized the patch shown below to be worn on agents' uniforms as a way to protest the nearly 40% pay cut from discontinued AUO, cut uniform allowances (in the face of TSA getting a $50 million windfall for new unis), and reductions in salary.

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The massive teamthat works day in and day out to bring you the pearls of wisdom found here at Conservative Observer AZ decided to show their support for our agents
by taking the liberty of adding a few touches to the original patch.
The gang felt that this was a case where it is better to ask forgiveness
than permission, and we hope that the union sees it in the spirit it
which it was intended! [read: Neither the U.S. Border Patrol nor
its agent unions are responsible for the atrocious artistic talent on
display in the modified version of their patch.] You too can show
solidarity with the plight of the Border Patrol by downloading and
proudly displaying the first logo above! Encourage others to steal it, and let David Aguilar, Janet Napolitano, and Barack Hussein Obama know that funding needs to be restored to protect our country!

Fellow Patriot,
I normally do not write you emails this personal — but today I’m making an exception.
My friend, we are in trouble.

I spent my entire life fighting for what is right and the rule of
law. I have fought against Mexican Drug Cartels who have threatened my
life and my family. I have fought against a corrupt Department of
Justice who is more interested in scoring political points than
enforcing the law. I have fought against President Obama who doesn’t
have the first clue on how to secure our borders or protect our
citizens.

IRAN: Asylum Rejected by Swedish Authorities
VIETNAM: New Government Policy Undermines Church Movement
KAZAKHSTAN: Court Mandates the Destruction of Christian Literature
IRAN: Wife of Pastor Saeed Testifies Before Human Rights Commission
INDIA: Pastor Released After Years of Confinement

Persecution Update keeps you informed of what is going on in our world concerning persecuted Christians. (Info from Voice of the Martyrs Canada.) Download entire Quicktime movies for showing to your group or church from swordandspirit.com, the Human Rights page.

Hella week. And she (that would be me) watches the universe unfold alien realities that demand we think long and hard about self-preservation.

FILED - Tax dollars (that would be yours and mine).
We are expected to believe that because of the sequester poor Joe Biden
will have to start using the train for his weekly trip to Delaware. I've got to take the train now -- it's cheaper than flying.' So I get to take the train again."
- Yeah. Just long enough for a couple of photo ops for the gullible
Kool-Aid drinkers who love their government provided K-Y jelly
sandwich's! You see, there are other stories out there that just don't
speak to our resident vice commander in thief being concerned about saving money. Biden's $459,388.65 Hotel Bill for 136 rooms for a weeks stay last month in London. Gee! I wonder what the food bill and travel costs were?

Meanwhile - back to those tax payers referred to above - The number of suburban residents living in poverty rose by nearly 64 percent between 2000 and 2011 - Poverty Hits America's Suburbs

FILED - War Is Coming - Pray for those sounding the alarm and showing the way. Be prepared!

I
don't know what part the hactivists will play in the coming days. This
piece gives us a pretty good idea the government is not fond of them. A
close friend upon reading said - "Justification being given to start using drones on civilians?" via Washington Times - Civilian ‘hacktivists’ could be lethal targets in cyberwar, NATO study says - since
they are not members of their countries’ military, the manual says,
hacktivists taking part in a cyberwar should be considered “unprivileged
belligerents” ..... are not entitled to prisoner of war status under
the Geneva Conventions, and they can be prosecuted for their actions —
even if those actions would have been legal under the laws of war if
carried out by military personnel.

via The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler - Pushing Us Ever Closer To The Edge - The
mission is everything, and our mission is to preserve, uphold and
protect the Constitution of the United States of America against all
enemies, foreign AND domestic, so help us G-d.

viaFreedom Rings 1776 - Political Power And The Barrel Of A Gun - One
need but recall Obama's statement about a civilian defense force as
well armed, trained, and funded as our military. The concept has been
oft described as Obama's Army, and it is taking shape in the guise of
the DHS. Obama assumed office with the plan for a top down revolution,
leading to a communist utopia, with him totally in charge of our
economy, our health care, and all guns. Those guns are the hinge pin
upon which our future swings.

viaWND - The Rise of America's Gestapo - Why
does the government (and the Obama administration in particular) want
Americans’ firearms? Because they know that they are already guilty of
prosecutable crimes and are planning many more. They know that they
represent precisely why America’s founders put the Second Amendment in
the Constitution in the first place, and that they already merit being
removed by force of arms. They simply want to disarm Americans before a
preponderance of us come to that realization and respond accordingly.

*** update 3-25 *** Shortly after adding it here,
eatgrueldog's post disappeared. I asked him why it had come down. His
response - When I sourced it they had it wrong. I
removed it. It was an article from boulder channel 8 and it was untrue.
The arrests were actually people undergoing background checks with
warrants. I have unlinked though am leaving eatgrueldog's
site as there is always good material there. I am also leaving KJCT8
linked as Colorado is in my opinion, ground zero for this fight. *** eatgrueldog- Over 200 arrested in pro gun protest - KJCT8 News

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Is It Time To Organize The Revolution? Part 2: An Action Plan- viaThe D.C. Clothesline- There
are a number of groups planning marches on Washington D.C. including
one that is an armed march scheduled for July 4. ..... Do I think that
an armed march on Washington D.C. is crazy? You bet I do. I have
talked to a few people that are going and though it is being advertised
as a “peaceful” march, certain individuals do not see it that way.
I must come to grips with the fact that this could be the start of
revolution in this country. Shots could be fired and it could trigger a
very serious response. That could be the day that some of us have waited
for and others have feared.

I am alone for a few hours so I thought I would get an update posted and also include a few images of the OLD hardware that was removed from my spine this last surgery. I had similar new hardware installed, larger screws, rods but no cages and I am fervently praying that all will start fusing over the next 16-20 week or I will be trouble. I will then HAVE TO undergo a revision fusion surgery which is a nasty, nasty procedure. I am fully expecting this to fuse.

As to how I am faring: doing OK for the most part. Still running a fever and the infection is still there just not sure how much remains. Draining the surgery site is now a very real possibility with a culture taken to see if there might be a specific antibiotic that can then be prescribed for whatever infection I have. The area is still very swollen. I am able to walk about 1/2 mile or so and am trying to do this once or twice a day. Doing what the doctors want me to do and trying to be good. I just finished an excellent book and if you are at interested in WW 2 and the Pacific theater of the war, then this may be of interest to you. The book is titled "No Ordinary Joes" by Larry Colton. The book is about four American submariners and the story about their submarine getting attacked, scuttled, how they survived being captured and held prisoner under horrific conditions by the Japanese. The book starts before the war, takes you through each of the sailors lives before, during and after the war as they try to rebuild their lives after the war. I have always enjoyed U.S.and global military history. The history of the U.S. submarine fleet and those submariners who served on these 'boats' has always fascinated me. It takes a very special person to serve in this capacity, especially those who served on the diesel submarines.

So this is pretty much where I am at. I am still unable to do much on any computer as sitting for longer than 15-20 minutes is no no bad dog. Below are the parts that the good surgeon removed from my spine from the previous fusion procedures. She had to leave four screws and a couple of other pieces of hardware in my spine as it would have been at least two more hours of surgery, if not more time to beat, grind and yard those out of me.

This is what happens to you if you speak out on anti-Semitism on UC Campuses

Tammi Benjamin is an adjunct teacher at UC Santa Cruz (America's Wackiest University). She is also Jewish and a friend of mine. Tammi has been very active in trying to combat the constant anti-Semitism on UC campuses. In doing so, she helped start the AMCHA Initiative.

Now the little rascals at UC Berserkley are going after Tammi and calling her a racist for standing up to the MSA (Muslim Student Association chapters), Students for Justice in Palestine, and certain professors who are contributing to the anti-Semitic climate. Look at this below.

If I were Tammi, I would laugh this off and wear it as a badge of honor. Who cares what a bunch of dopey left-wing kids at Berkeley or Santa Cruz think of her? I seriously doubt the administration will do anything with this. If they do, they will be just as bad.

Here is the deal: If you are going to stand up to anti-Semitism on US university campuses, you have to single out the culprits. As for the UC system, it is clearly the various Muslim Student Associations and their front group, Students for Justice in Palestine, the latter because they have a few misguided non-Muslim members who have drunk the Kool Aid. They have a long history of dragging in anti-Semitic speakers during their anti-Israel hate weeks. For naming names, these dopey kids slam Benjamin as some sort of racist.

Of course, these various student governments are very selective in their outrage.

Did the UC Irvine student government ever condemn the statement of MSU-invited speaker Mohammed Al Asi in 2001 when he told an audience, "You can take the Jew out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the Jew"? Not to my knowledge.

Did the UC Irvine student government ever pass a resolution condemning this poster put up by the MSU a few years back during their week of events? Not to my knowledge.

Did the UCI student government ever pass a resolution condemning the so-called Irvine 11, who disrupted the Israeli ambassador's speech? No-they supported the disruptors.

Did the UC Berkeley student government ever condemn the Students for Justice in Palestine after one of their members rammed Jessica Felber-a Jewish student- with a loaded shopping cart? Not to my knowledge.

Did they ever condemn Berkeley professor Andrew Gutierrez after he heckled and gave the finger to a group of Jewish students peacefully protesting swastikas on campus bathroom walls? Not to my knowledge.

Has the UC Irvine student government ever condemned the annual anti-Semitic remarks of Amir Abdel Malik Ali when he comes to speak during anti-Israel week? Not to my knowledge.

Did the UC SD student government ever pass a resolution condemning the MSA gal who told David Horowitz that she supported a statement by Hezbollah that all Jews should gather in Israel so as to make it easier to hunt them down? Not to my knowledge.

I think it altogether proper for UC President Mark Yudof to make a strong statement in defense of Ms. Benjamin. Personally, based on his past performance-or lack thereof-I doubt if he will.

I wonder when they are coming after me. Frankly, I don't care. If they do, it will go on my resume.

I guess when it comes to teaching, I am an old fuddy-duddy. I believe that those who carry the title of teacher or professor belong in the classroom. Of course, at the university level, professors are also supposed to engage in research and publishing. The reality is that many classes in universities are conducted by interns and graduate students while the professor is off digging under the pyramids or writing a book on the Cambodian influence on German literature. I get that. Of course, it doesn't pertain to me because I'm just a simple guy who grabbed a chance to get a masters degree late in my 40s. Thus, you will always find me in my UCI-Ext class teaching English as a second language at the appointed time.

But did you know that at UC Irvine (and UCLA), your kids may be taking classes taught by fellow undergraduate students?

And who thought up this brilliant idea? Apparently, according to my inside sources, that would be the dean of undergraduate education, Sharon V Salinger, who reportedly got this bad idea from what they were doing at UCLA.

I got a bulletin for Dean Salinger: Parents don't pay $10,000-30,000 a year to have their kids sit in classes taught by their fellow undergraduates. They pay to have their kids taught by professors (which is bad enough).

I also note that one of the courses is taught under the supervision of pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel activist Professor Mark LeVine. It concerns the "misinformation" about the Middle East coming from the media. God only knows what comes out of that class, but here's a clue."Course Description:To fully comprehend the world around you, it is advantageous to be familiar with where your information comes from. The Middle East is a hotbed of turmoil; it seems that the media dwells more on that region than any other part of the world. The problem is that much of the coverage of the region, regardless of whether it is produced in the West or Muslim world, features biased and inaccurate information that bombard viewers, listeners and readers. This seminar hopes to help us understand what are the most common of these biases and misperceptions and what may account for them."Misperception in Benghazi Mark LeVine

And what a coincidence! This weekend, I am off to Mesa, Arizona to watch my beloved Cubbies in spring training. Armed with this latest info, I figure I can talk them into letting me play a couple of innings at second base.

I saw something the other day that I hadn't seen before - I went into one of the big Tesco superstores and there was a collection point for a food bank - they had a list of approved products like pasta, cereals, tinned goods, UHT milk etc. The idea was that you could buy some of these things while doing your own shopping, then pass them along to the food bank on your way out of the shop.

Anyhow, I got a flashback to Patriot helping that fellow who was living in his car in front of his parents' property a while back, and decided I'd do my bit. I duly collected some tinned rice, long-life milk, pasta, soup and biscuits while I was picking up my own stuff, and handed it in on my way out of the shop.

You've got to do what you can when you get the opportunity, after all.

The UC Riverside Campus newspaper, The Highlander, is headlining this story appropriately as, "Passed and Shredded". It suggests that once again, the Palestinian-Israeli issue has led to to division, tension and at least intimidating glares on a US campus. In this case, the student government passed a resolution supporting boycott, sanctions and divestment from companies that do business with Israel, a resolution that the university will ignore-except for a brief statement.

It appears that no resolutions were passed regarding the on-going massacres in Syria.

Nor the persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the attacks on their churches, and the violence as the Muslim Brotherhood cements its grip on that country.

Nor the missiles fired into Southern Israel by Hamas in Gaza.

Nor the strife in Yemen as the last remaining Jews attempt to get out of the country and al Qaeda runs amok.

Nor the continuing bloodshed in Libya including the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi that killed 4 Americans including our ambassador.

Nor the Islamist-driven civil war in Mali.

Nor the constant terror attacks against Christians in Nigeria.

Nor the genocidal situation in Darfur as Islamists in North Sudan continue to threaten the black Christians and animists in South Sudan.

Nor the on-going bombings in Iraq as Sunni and Shia continue to kill each other and Christians flee persecution.

Nor the dwindling Christian population of Lebanon under Hizbollah

Nor the continuing killings and terror attacks in Afghanistan.

Nor the continuing terror attacks and killings in Pakistan as Christians continue to be persecuted as well as Ahmadi Muslims.

Nor the constant human rights violations in Saudi Arabia and second class status for women.

Nor the continuing development of nuclear weapons in Iran, the persecution of Baha'i and Christians and threat to world peace.

Nor the daily assaults and harassment against Jews in European cities by Muslim immigrants.

No. It is all about Israel, a tiny democratic country where Arabs enjoy more rights that anywhere else in the region surrounded and threatened by barbaric, Jew-hating nations where human rights do not exist.

I am home alone and will use this time to get this next feed up. This is a MUST READ and please share with as many people as you can.

If you are not aware of what happened in Cyprus this past weekend you had better educate yourself and do so quickly. If you do not think this can happen here then you are a fool, a moron for not seeing how this same scenario can come to pass in the United States.

Everything that the Obama administration has done, will do, is goose stepping towards becoming part of the global economic collapse. The American dollar, will at some point in the near future become virtually worthless and the ensuing chaos will be nothing short of catastrophic. This plan was put into motion decades ago. Both Republicans and Democrats are guilty of pushing this agenda forward. Much of the current events that are taking place are just shiny baubles and trinkets meant to distract the sheeple of this country.

There are links for two excellent articles at the top of this next feed that are also must reads. This is about survival in a world that will quite possibly be tipping into utter chaos and mayhem. You think all the ammunition, weapon, armored personnel carriers purchased by numerous government agencies are for wild game hunting? The massive expansion in the use of drones domestically is extremely troubling and where we live in Central Oregon, is on track to become one of the largest 'test areas' for new drones and related technology. This region is also doing all it can to become a central hub for manufacturing drones as Central Oregon is in dire need of creating new jobs. Our tri-county area is still crippled by horrendous unemployment that is over 12% when averaged out for Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties. This is the reported U3 rates not the U6 figures which are much more accurate and always higher than the U3 rates.

I am running out of time, energy and my lower back is extremely swollen. This just blew up overnight and will be checked tomorrow by the surgeon. Really is becoming a major hassle as it is now two weeks since surgery. I really hope they do not have to go back in for a looksee but if so then that is what will be done. Thank you to all who contribute here and to those who are so faithful by dropping in everyday. PatriotUSA

Much like my high-level source within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security outlined in a series of interviews beginning last year, the orchestrated collapse
of the U.S. dollar and the entire world’s economic system has begun.
The first shots in a global economic take-over were fired in Cyprus as
my esteemed colleague and founding editor of Canada Free Press, Judi
McLeod laid out in frank detail in her column yesterday and her follow up today.

Please read it and heed her advice, or suffer the consequences of
your own normalcy bias that such an event will not happen in the United
States, Canada, or from wherever you might be reading this. It will, and
the plan appears to be on schedule
for a shot across the bow later this spring here in the West, with a
more aggressive take-over starting sometime this fall, according to my
source.

The Plan

To those needing a quick refresher, the plan is quite simple and can
be summarized by the Clinton-era quip attributed to political strategist
James Carville, “the economy, stupid” and the June 9, 2010 statement by
former Obama czar Van Jones, Socialist extraordinaire, “top down,
bottom up, inside out.” It is a plan for a one world Communist economy
where the “middle class” will be wiped out through a series of events
that will have the same ultimate effect as we are seeing in present day
Cyprus.

Based on the events in Cyprus, it should be quite clear to even the
most vocal critic of the legitimacy of the information provided to me by
my source within the DHS as published on this web site is no longer at
issue. The U.S. dollar, the backbone of world currencies
and the proverbial firewall preventing the erosion of our national
sovereignty, is the ultimate target of a takedown by the global banking interests controlled by a handful of banks and families of the “royal elite.”

The plan for a global currency or a one world economic order is a
matter that transcends political parties. Those who continue to argue in
the Republican-Democrat meme are doing nothing more than providing
entertainment to distract people from the real issue, that of the global
elite versus the rest of us. The top of the pyramid in this Ponzi
scheme is filled with members of both U.S. political parties who are
systematically pillaging us and our future generations into financial debt,
bondage and slavery. It is a plan that has been in the works for
centuries. The problem, however, is that we have been conditioned not to think that big. Yet, the lie is that big.

The parties

Our current financial situation was not bred out of incompetence, but
by design. The occupancy of Barack Hussein Obama as the putative
President of the United States was a plan in the making long ago, to
usher in this oppressive system where we will be left at the mercy of
the global ruling class. It is not by accident that we have been
prevented from knowing exactly who this man is, from the controversy of
his birth records to his college transcripts and even his social
security number. Contrary to what the state-controlled media wants you
to believe, these questions have never been answered with any measure of authenticity.

For example, does anyone honestly believe that it is merely a
coincidence that Obama’s alleged mother, Stanley Ann Dunham-Soetoro,
just happened to work with Timothy Geithner’s father, Peter Geithner, at
the Ford Foundation in Indonesia? Is it reasonable to believe that the
Republican party had no knowledge of the background of Barack Hussein
Obama? Yet not one word from the Republican establishment as they not
only watched, but facilitated the takeover of the United States from
within. As I’ve written before, our nation is a captured operation.

The plan was set into motion long ago, stemming back to the founding
of the United States and the temporary resistance to the central banking system. In 1913, the creation of the Federal Reserve set the countdown clock in motion for the complete
subjugation of the United States to the interests of the global bankers
and the global elite. The secret supra-governmental cabals such as the
Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission worked behind
the scenes, under the cover provided by the complicit media, to bring
us to this point in history. Perpetual wars were induced to occupy the
masses while the chess pieces were placed into their current positions.
We are now about to pay the price for our inability or unwillingness to
confront the establishment and incremental advancements leading to our
own demise.

DHS source: Everything is not “coming up roses”

According to the most recent information provided to me from my source within the Department of Homeland Security
known as “Rosebud,” the final preparations are being made to deploy
heavily armed federalized forces onto the streets of America. They will
be deployed under the pretext of “restoring and maintaining order from
the chaos brought about by the economic collapse,” adding that “many
will demand and embrace their deployment on the streets of America.

They will get what they ask for, and more.” Much like the security theater we have seen following the attacks of
9/11, we will be subjected to the jack-booted control of a federal army
whose allegiance is not to the American people, but to the very
architects of the chaos.

“This is the reason that drones are flying over U.S. cities and
farmland, and gun control legislation is on the fast track for complete
implementation,” stated this source. “How can people look at the
situation in Cyprus and not think it won’t happen here? It will, and the
blowback will be unlike this country has ever seen. Surveillance,
disarming the public, and conditioning the people to believe it’s for
their own safety is and has been part of the plan all along. Anyone
owing a gun will be demonized and described as contributing to the
problem.”

“What happens when the middle class loses much of their wealth, or it
is confiscated, by the stroke of a pen or a keyboard? What will the
stores look like when people, unprepared due to the damn lies of the
corporate media and the shills for the ruling elite, run to empty out
everything they can get their hands on as the world, as they know it,
collapses around them?”

It was during my most recent contact with my source yesterday that he
admitted that the situation will be blamed not on the bankers and the
elected leaders who are raping us of our wealth and buying power, but on
“right-wing, gun-toting Conservative ‘militia’ groups who believe that
the situation is orchestrated.” And, of course,it is orchestrated.

“There is no Republican-Democrat argument to be made anymore. It’s
all political theater to keep the majority of the masses occupied while
the true enemy has already captured both parties,” he added. “They are
all in on it, either knowingly or unwittingly, the takeover, that is.
And it’s getting harder to believe that there are any who are unwitting
accomplices at this point.”

“When the curtain is pulled back to reveal the true agenda of a
single digital world currency, the people who have been yelling the
loudest about such ‘conspiracy theories’ will be specifically singled
out and demonized. They will be blamed for causing the panic we will
see, and of course, dealt with by the army we asked for, accepted and
even tolerated.”

Anyone who still believes that the information provided by this
insider is “doom porn” or some self-created fantasy need to look at the
events taking place in Cyprus. It’s coming to America. It has already
begun.

Douglas J. Hagmann and his son, Joe Hagmann host The Hagmann & Hagmann Report, a live Internet radio program broadcast each weeknight from 8:00-10:00 p.m. ET.

Douglas Hagmann, founder & director of the Northeast Intelligence Network,
and a multi-state licensed private investigative agency. Doug began
using his investigative skills and training to fight terrorism and
increase public awareness through his website.

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